On Tuesday 16 March 2010, Holger Levsen wrote: > On Dienstag, 16. März 2010, Frans Pop wrote: > > An additional issue with non-free firmware is that including it in the > > way you propose would (I think) mean it will get loaded without any > > prompting of the user, which may in some cases violate licence terms. > > i thought the same at first, but actually that's not the case. The user > is still asked (by the package) if she wants to accept the licence. (As > no preseeding takes place.)
But that's only at the point where the package gets installed in the target system. And at that point the firmware is already in use. IMO a proper solution would ensure the licence dialog gets displayed before the firmware first gets loaded by the installer. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-cd-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/201003161350.45073.elen...@planet.nl
